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Hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse in Gaza in a desperate attempt to get something to eat. They shoved and shouted at each other and even ripped off pieces of the building to get inside. Hospital officials said four people died Wednesday in the chaos. The deaths came a day after a crowd was fired upon while overrunning a new aid-distribution site in the Gaza Strip set up by an Israeli and U.S.-backed foundation. Gaza's Health Ministry said the gunfire killed at least one Palestinian, and 48 others were wounded. The Red Cross Field Hospital said the wounded included women and children with gunshot wounds.
Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering in the central Gaza Strip has killed at least 17 people. The strike came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel had accomplished its objective of "effectively dismantling" Hamas and that cease-fire negotiations would resume in the coming days. Another 42 people were wounded in the strike in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the hospital that received the casualties. Among the dead were 13 children under the age of 18 and three women, according to the hospital's records. The Israeli military said it targeted Hamas militants inside the school, without providing evidence.
The Israeli military says a top Hezbollah official who had been widely expected to be the group's next leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut in early October. Earlier on Tuesday the Israeli military leveled a building in a suburb of Beirut that it said housed Hezbollah "facilities," sending smoke and debris into the air a few hundred meters from where a spokesperson for the militant group had just briefed journalists about a weekend drone attack that damaged the Israeli prime minister's house. Also on Tuesday U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Blinken aims to revive cease-fire efforts after last week's killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby says President Joe Biden is "deeply concerned" about the unauthorized release of classified documents on Israel's preparation for a potential retaliatory attack on Iran. Kirby said Monday that the administration still isn't certain if the classified information was leaked or hacked. Kirby says administration officials "don't have any indication at this point that there's an expectation that there'll be additional documents like this finding their way into the public domain." He added that the Pentagon is investigating. The investigation may take some time as authorities look for digital or physical clues that could reveal how the information got out.
Israel says it is planning to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before. It says the militant group uses the deposits of Lebanese people to finance rocket attacks against Israel. Israeli forces struck at least 15 branches of Al-Qard Al-Hassana late Sunday. One strike flattened a nine-story building in Beirut. The Israeli military issued evacuation warnings ahead of the strikes, and there were no reports of casualties. Israel sent ground forces into Lebanon earlier this month, saying it aims to push Hezbollah from the border and stop it from launching rockets into Israel.
The families of hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza say time is of the essence to rescue their loved ones following the killing of Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, by Israeli troops in Gaza. They are extremely worried that Sinwar's death might endanger their loved ones even more by prompting retaliation from the hostages' captors. They also say that killing Sinwar presents Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a opportunity to claim victory on one of his war goals, destroying Hamas politically, and pivot the the second, returning the hostages.
The Israeli military says it has killed Hamas' top leader Yahya Sinwar during a battle in Gaza. Troops appeared to have run across him in a battle on Wednesday, only to discover afterwards that a body in the rubble was the man Israel has hunted for more than a year. Authorities conducted DNA tests on a body to determine if it was him. Sinwar was one of the chief architects of Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has "settled its account" with Sinwar but "war is not yet ended." There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas of Sinwar's death.
